It Was Beauty That Killed the Beast
Call me a dork, but I think a short clip of William Shatner screaming: "KONG!!!" would've made me laugh....So if you haven't seen it already, go out and watch it. Nevermind the fact that it's THREE HOURS LONG. Aside from maybe the beginning part of the film, you really don't notice the time slipping away. It's well worth the price of admission: The CGI was seamless. It was paction acked. Jack Black surprisingly wasn't "Jack Black" (except for that one part in the beginning). And Naomi Watts was freakin' hot (just suspend your disbelief at her falling in love with a 25 foot gorilla). My only complaint is the sound: it wasn't bad, but AMC 1000 ain't no seat-shakin' pant-cuff-vibratin' Mann Village Westwood. Eh...small price to pay for living up here.
It's been almost 10 years since I saw the original RKO version -- did it have the same social commentary and racial undertones that this one did? Or is that me just reading too much into this film?
posted by VirtualErn @ 1:54 AM
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i told you it was good!! :-)
racial undertones are certainly still there. the dark natives out to get the blond who end up needing to be rescued by the men, even though this time this blonde is not as fragile and does use her wits, and has more character than the previous blonds in the role. (why is it always the blond? and everyone else, meaning the natives, are all undesirable)there's the whole commentary as well on how the natural world is disappearing as well. Kong's reign is up, he is the last of his kind, and "man" and his technology "found" one of the last untouched worlds, and essentially destroyed it by taking its king, Kong, away and peppering him with bullets. i don't think beauty killed the beast. that's the only thing i didn't like about the movie. i see it more as a man vs. nature kind of polarity. and in this case, man and his technology killed nature in all its magnificence, glory and mystery. i was rooting for the ape personally.
did you love the decomposers scene or what?!? gigantic creepy crawlies! it was soooo scary and creepy and gave me nightmares for days!! fun!! and the t-rex scene? so awesome!!
Ha! I knew you'd pick up on those same things! I agree, Carl Denham definitely missed the point -- it wasn't airplanes that killed the beast, it was white people. :) But I'm pretty sure the writer/director did that on purpose though, one last fitting statement punctuating the wanton destruction that modern man set forth. It really brought out their ignorance. LOVED IT!
And yeah, those Skull Island scenes kicked ass. Peter Jackson's signature was all over those sequences. Damnit, I really wish there was a theater like The Village up here. :(
greed killed the beast!
and if i'm ever caught between a t-rex vs Kong showdown, i'd know what side to be on too! (sunset or no beautiful cliffside orange & pink sky over a blue horizon sunset - visually metaphorical or otherwise!)
LG
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